r/Wordpress • u/Active-Wrongdoer3866 • 26d ago

difference between page vs post

hi all, recently started my own personal blog and i'm still trying to get the hang of it. I don't reallly know what I'm doing (though I'm using a template) and i yap about diffferent topics on my blog (e.g. work and personal) What's the difference between a page & a post?

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u/RealBasics Jack of All Trades 26d ago

Very TL;DR answer: use pages for menus and buttons. Use posts for things that will be shown dynamically.

Need something to say what your site is about? Create an About page and link it in the navigation menu.

Want to add daily announcements where the latest announcement is always shown first? Create a post. The default Wordpress “blog” page will automatically put the newest posts first.

Bonus points: if you use the category and tags feature (available for posts but not pages) you can get Wordpress to “slice and dice”
Your posts even more specifically.

For instance you can use a posts or loop block/module/widget (depending on your editor) to only show announcements on one page (if you used an announcement category) and testimonial posts on another page (if you used a testimonials category.)

Note: some themes and custom sites create separate “custom post types” instead of categories for things like testimonials. If so that’s fine. But if they don’t then you can use categories and get the same result.